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Re: adduser rewrite



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3 cheers for guile.  If someone wants to convert the base system
scripts to guile, they have my blessing.  Scheme beats perl and
python any day.  The rest of the world just hasn't woken up to
that fact :-)

Jonathan

On 28 Aug 2001, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> Also, speaking of rewriting with the assumption of not wanting perl in
> base, wasn't the GNU project talking about rewriting autoconf/automake
> in guile?  I thought guile was an extension language, but if it can make
> stand-alone scripts too, it might be worthwhile to rewrite them in
> scheme instead of python/C.  C would be a chore to maintain code for
> things best left to data-oriented languages, not a system-oriented
> language.  ~,^

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